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Method of operating a telecommunications network

a telecommunications network and network technology, applied in the field of telecommunications network operation, can solve the problems of elements changing state, or dying

Inactive Publication Date: 2011-06-02
BRITISH TELECOMM PLC
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The present invention provides a method for operating a data network comprising multiple interconnected nodes, where user devices can issue task requests for services to be carried out by nodes in the network. The method involves using a virtual mechanism in which different types of elements are represented, each with its own set of probabilistic rules for how it behaves. The virtual mechanism is designed to ensure that the total population of elements remains below a certain threshold, so that the mechanism can be operated without dropping elements due to lack of hardware resources. The method also includes analyzing the virtual mechanism to determine the services offered by each node in the network, and optimizing the distribution of elements based on their behavior to ensure efficient operation. The invention also provides a data network comprising multiple interconnected nodes, where the virtual mechanism is running to offer services to user devices.

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Such interactions may result in elements changing state, or dying (i.e. being deleted) etc.

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[0030]Referring to FIG. 1, a network comprises a plurality of users 101-115, a plurality of service offering nodes 21-25 and an interconnecting network 30 by which any node 21-25 can communicate with any other node 21-25. FIG. 2 illustrates an individual one 21 of the nodes 21-25, all of which are substantially similar to one another.

[0031]Thus, as shown in FIG. 2, the node 21 comprises an interface 210 by which it can communicate via the network to any other node 22-25 as well as to the users 101,102,103 to which it is directly connected. The node 21 also includes a request handler 220 which is responsible for receiving tasks submitted by a connected user and then generating what are hereinafter referred to as user requests from each such task and generally handling each such request until the associated task submitted by a user has been successfully fulfilled by a suitable node; the various processing performed by the request handler is described below, especially with reference ...

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[0152]A distributed system based on an activation sequence of different elements can be constructed under a range of different conditions, which might represent either inadequate or excessive complexity for the application required. In order to test whether the above-described preferred embodiment has adequate complexity for a distributed network of service providing nodes, a simulation of a performed in which only a single level of activation was required. In this alternative embodiment, T cells are excluded altogether and instead of each creator creating completely inactive B cells, each creator instead creates beta activated B cells which therefore only need to interact with an antigen cell to immediately create a fully activated B cell. In the simulation, this embodiment was found to react slightly faster to new requests but to exhibit worse fault tolerance because the benefit of T cells spreading knowledge about which nodes are performing which services was lost.

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In a method of operating a data network comprising a plurality of interconnected nodes (30) each of which is operable to perform one or more services upon receiving a suitable request for a service, one or more user devices (10) connected to the network can issue requests (12, 14) for a service to be carried out by a node or nodes within the network. The method comprises: operating a virtual mechanism (50) in which a plurality of different types of elements (61, 65, 66, 67) are represented, each element obeying a set of rules associated with the respective type of the element, the respective set of rules specifying how the element behaves, wherein the probabilistic rules governing the creation, destruction and alteration of the elements are arranged to ensure that the total population of elements per node, and / or the total number of each type of element per node tends to remain below a certain settable threshold population whereby the mechanism can generally be operated without requiring elements to be dropped because of a lack of hardware processing resources, thereby maintaining the efficiency of the mechanism.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to a method of operating a telecommunications network and in particular to a method of using local interactions to match system resources within the network to demand.BACKGROUND TO THE INVENTION[0002]As telecommunications networks grow in size, power and general complexity, keeping such a network operating in an efficient manner by human administration of the network becomes more and more difficult. For this reason, there is much ongoing research into the field of how such networks could operate autonomously, especially with regard to how to adjust the way in which the overall resources of the network are used in order to keep the network running as efficiently as possible.[0003]In order to tackle this issue, one general approach is to assume that a network will offer users of the network various different services and that the efficiency of the network as a whole can be measured in terms of how successfully and quickly user ...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06F15/173
CPCH04L41/5051H04L41/0893
Inventor MARROW, PAULGOWANS, DAVID M.TATESON, RICHARD E.
Owner BRITISH TELECOMM PLC
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